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to the prosperity of the Ceram countries on the haat of the Rhine. What, Germany has to expect from the Dutch Govera anent may be inferred from the strange assertion brought for ward in that Note, that the town of Gorcum, twelve leagues from Rotterdam and twenty from the sea, is to be con sidered as the limit between the sea and the river. The Fos pect of the vintage is extremely favourable on the Rhine; all the vines have blossomed at once, which is highly important to the goodness of the wine ' • and they a re covere d w i t h l arger quant i t i es of grap es t h an we have ever seen even in the best seasons. Pipe 'fives have risen from 38 a 39 florins, to 54 a 55 florins per hundred. It is not ly ing since the diffusion of intellectual cul tivation an:iong the working classes formed a very gene ral topii of discussion, and many and fearful were the predictions and forebodings of some as to the conse- quinices which might eventually result. We heard much of the lower orders being raised out of their proper sphere ; and being made discontented with the condition in which Providence had placed them. Our ears were assailed with declamations against the spread of knowledge, as likely to excite the working classes to every species of insubordination : and Mechanics' Institutes were denounced as nothing less than schools of radicalism and sedition. The diffusion of intelligence, however, quietly, went nn, and the operatives in nearly all our manufacturing districts, became imbued with at least some notion of the rudiments of science. During a period of public prosperity, we certainly heard nothing of the voice of sedition or tumult ; but we were warned that a time might come when distress would call forth the latent spirit of insubordination. The opportunity has since arrived, a crisis of distress altogether unexampled, has been brought on, and what has been the result ? The operatives have had numerous motives and incentives to Insubordination and tumult ; motives and incentives, we do not hesitate to saygreater than those which at any for mer period may have worked upon their minds ; they have, moreover, by no means been left to themselves; emissaries and agents of the most wicked principles, have been trying every art to inflame their minds, and yet we may safely assert, that there never was a period of public distress attended with so little offence against the public peace ; never, under such circumstances, was subordination less violated, or the spirit of sedi tion less manifested. So much, then, for the boasted predictions of the enemies of popular illumination; but we must confess we are inclined even to go further, and to ask with no small degree of confidence, is not this state of things in a great measure to be ascribed to the very cause from which such opposite results have by some been predicted ? For, is it not, we would ask, one very natural, and general effect of creating a desire for knowlete., and a love of intellectual pursuits, to withdraw men from the vortex of political agitation ? and doe not the cultivation of the mind naturally lead to halite of greater reflection and calculation ? does it not teach the individual to loo); to the consequences of, his actions, and enable him to judge of their results , ? Thus, surely, the more enlightened the operatives be come, the more able will they be to understand what is for their real good. It is by teaching them to re flect, to reason, and to calculate, that they will learn to look to remoter consequences : that they will see the absurdity of many of their hitherto most deeply rooted prejudices ; that they will better under stand their true interests, and not be liable to be made the dupes of every noisy and designing demagogue, nor he led, by destroying the very means of their sup port, to involve themselves in more irretrievable ruin. (Prom the Aberdeen Chronicle of the 22d of July.) On Saturday last the Expedition, Watson, arrived in the Bay, had a fine passage of 44 days from Montego Bay, Jamaica, and left only 6 or 8 vessels, among which were the David Lyon, of and for London, nearly loaded, and the Trelawney of Glasgow discharging; on the 3d of June, when in lat. 24. 28. N. and long. 80. £O, about twenty miles southward of the floating light on Carisford Reef, was chased by a schooner, which, on coming near, appeared to have a long gun a midships, and a number of men, who came on deck on nearing the brig ; the Expedition had bore up to join a brig to leeward, which proved to be the Superior of and from Portland, from Havannah, with molasses ' • but the schooner, although named from a friendly port, having Tropic of llattimore on her stern, declined coming between two, made 8411 , and gave chace to a brig, which she overhauled in an incre dible short time, although as far as it could be seen to windward, and was observed still alongside of he r a t d a rk next day , "e schooner was standing into the Keys alone, and from her man ner of maneuvering, and other suspicious circumstances, there is every reason to believe her a pirate. She is described as an uncommonly handsome vessel; very long, with a white bottom, and yellow panned streak all fore and aft sails; and sailed like the wind.—The Phesdo, 111‘Bain, which arrived in the Bay on Sunday, also from Cape Breton, and proceeded to the southward, brings the melancholy account of the loss of the General Broth, of Jersey bound for Gaspee, she was run down by an unknown brig at half-past twelve o'clock A. ai. on the 29th, in lat. 47. 10. N. long. 4.8. 30. W. Thomas Mallet, Jlimes Perrin% and Philip Barker, jumped on board while she was entangled with the General Brock ; James Home continued on board, and was drowned. The rest, fourteen in number, took to the long boat, and very soon afterwards saw the vessel g o down. These men' were in the b oa t f or ten days ; they had no water, and during the first five days they had only a small Dutch cheese. D ur i ng t h e l ast c i x days, six of the m ' perished, vi:. Philip naval, clerk to the h ouse o f J am i e and Co.; - Francis Che valier Coop er , Phili p S everat, Clement Rinolp, ' Elias Vibrant, and James Brown ; and the rest were obliged to subsist on the dead bodies of their comrades. On the 9th June they were fallen inwith by the brig A nn , o f Li verpoo l , Capt. Forbes, who took them on board and treated them with the utmost humanity, but four of them, viz. Captain P. Land, Edward Lace, Charles Meyers, and Francis le Marc, soon after died. The survivors are, Elias Bundon, mate; Jos. Powell, John Dobard, and Wm. /NON., and they have all suffered much from the effects of cold —their feet having been host-bitten and ulcerated. WHALE FISHERY. Extract of a letter from Capt. Ash, of the Ever thorpe, dated off Iceland, June 10, on his way from Greenland for Davis Straits :—. I wr it e to inform you of my being off Iceland, towards Davis Straits, with 1,200 seals, but no fish -15 tons of 0 1. I was in lat. Si, mid in and out of the ice down to lat. 70, and saw four fish. The Jane and Neptune, of Aberdeen, had one fish each; the Kiero one, and 500 seals-18 tons; all the others clean. E. and N.E. winds have packed the ice the same as last year. Greenland will be as bad as last year, I think, so I would leave it in time. The accounts from the Manufacturing Districts to day, though repeating the statements of the distress every where prevailing, are satisfactory, as showing that a peaceable disposition pervades the unemployed classes, and that the continued attempts of the vilest of mankind to excite them to acts of riot, have uni versally failed. The following letter from our Agent at Sheffield is one of the many proof's w e cou ld g i ve of th ere b e i ng no other wish among the op erat i ves t h an for work and food : " I have been through most of the distressed manufactur ing towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and I am very sorry at the misrepresentations of newspapers respecting the distressed manufacturers. It would appear, from the statements of the Press, that we were on the eve of a Re volution; but I can assure you I never saw so much dis. tress with so little disposition to riot; and when the great 'meeting at Manchester, on Saturday the Bth instant, took plate (which Meeting the papers so blazed with dreadful apprehensions), a friend of mine, an eye-witness on the spot, declared to me that the greatest part of that assembly, instead of being excited to riot by the harangue of the Irish orator, were disgusted with his inflammatory discourse, and went peaceably to their homes. Having myself asked one relative to the affair, he said he did not want to fight, he wanted work. I sincerely hope his Majesty's Government will very shortly devise some means to re lieve this distressed but loyal people." The case of Mr. WAKEFIELD, at the ensuing Lancaster Assizes, continues to excite increasing curiosity, and we understand that several of our co temporaries have made arrangements for getting up a report of the trial exclusively for the gratification of those who are longing for such a prodigiously interest ing affair. We are really grieved to be under the ne cessity of throwing cold 'water not only upon the laudable exertions of our spirited rivals, but upon the growing impatience of our fair readers, by informing them in due time that there will be no trial at all—as Mr. TURNER will not appear against Mr. WAKE FIELD. This is turning round to some purpose, but what a lame and impotent conclusion ! It will be observed by our Parliamentary Report, given in another column, that the House of Lords met yesterday, and after the Commons had by their Officers appeared at the Bar, both Houses were formally prorogued to the 24th August. Nothing has yet transpired to give any sanction to the Reports which have been for some days in circu lation, that Parliament would be assembled at an early period of the autumn. In another part of our Paper will be found a report of a private meeting on Monday, of Gentlemen in terested in the improvement of the City, by widening the space round the Cathedral of St. Paul's.— Nothing, in our opinion, can do more honour to these Gentlemen, or confer greater benefit on the City of London, than the accomplishment of so desir able an improvement. It has long been the dis grace of this metropolis, that the most stupendous monument of the Arts has been buried among rubbishing houses, to the annoyance of the public, and the manifest injury of business. If we can afford to expend large sums on useless plans, and worthless objects, why not have national spirit and generosity enough to spare a portion of our wealth upon works which will reflect credit on the taste of the projectors, be an ornament to the metro polis, and benefit posterity ? Unfortunately for the cause of public improvement, the little petty jealousies of private interest step in, and oppose every plan ; but such short-sighted views should be met fairly and openly on the ground of public good, and the consequent advantage to those very private interests themselves. The removal of Fleet Market has been talked of for these two years, but little progress has yet been made, had doubts are now felt of the practicability of the undertaking upon the original scale. It is a great pity that the Legislature, in passing bills for the improvement of certain portions of the town, do not make them so comprehensive that the real objects in view cannot be evaded by the shuffling tricks of local parties, who always contrive to render the plans non-effective by the enormous ex pence incurred through their unblushing cupidity. An old house having a shop for the sale of matches, sets up a claim of some thousand pounds for the loss of business, g oo d- w ill, and so forth, when the property possibly would not have realised as mary hundreds before the projected improvement was made public. It is amazing how much these improvements are retarded, through the opposition of Parochial Boards to every plan for bettering the communication, or beautifying particular parts, merely because the proposition had not originated with themselves, or some such objection equally frivolous and contemptible. But we are happy to see the LORD MAYOR, and other public-spirited Gentle men, lending their influence to the promotion of an object so praiseworthy as the improvement of the pas sages and b u ildi ngs in t h e v i c i ni ty o f S t . P AUL s,-- and we have still greater pleasure in seeing that a plan so magnificent has obtained the sanction and approba tion of those fostering patrons of the Arts, His IVIAJEsTy, and his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK. The LORD MAYOR very properly suggested the propriety of blending this improvement, with an improvement of the City generally, and we think the proposition worthy of serious consideration. While the Commissioners are employed in remov ing that unsightly anomaly, Fleet-market, we would recommend to them to make a street in an oblique di rection from Stone-cutter'* -street, across the rising ground, into Holborn, somewhere about Fetter-lane. This would be a most decided improvement to the property in that quar t er , an d wou ld ta k e o ff t h e steep ness of Holborn-I-1111. It would besides be a ready ec nnmunication with Blackfriar's Bridge, and take o ff a great portion of the ca r r i ages an d tr affic passing a long the Strand. MR - t'U - / - 4118: - CITY, Twelve o' There is little business in the British Funds this morning, which have remained to this hour without any interest. c onso i a opene d at 76i 1, and rose to 76} 7 ; the nearest price is now 761 * Three per Cent. Consols, '751 7; Ditto for Account, 76. i. 7 ; 4 per Cent. Scrip, 1 pin. ; India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 19 21 p m . ; Exchequer Bills, 12 pm. Foam); FUNDs.—Brazilial, 52 4; Buenos Ares, 4,8 5 0 ; Chilian, g 3 5; Colombian, 1824, S l l 'i!1; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 39 41 ; Ditto, 6 per C ent., 46 i 71; Peruvian, 25 ; Russian, 804 1. MiNlea.—Anglo Mexican, 4'7i 2i die. ; United Ditto, 10 9 ; Brazilian, 11 12 pm. ; Pasco Peruvian, 101 9} ; Tialptixahua, 5 dis, 5 pm. ; Colombian, 2 per char*. S akitzs.—Provineial Irish Bank, 98 dis, ; Australian, 3 5 p ro , Two o'clock. There is scarcely arty business at either the E n g lish or Forei g n B tack Exchanges, and the p rices have remained, with little visria ti°t's the same all t h e morning; 3 per Cent. Consols are '764 '7 ; Cents,,, 92 1; New 4 per Cents., 93 4 ; Exche q uer Bills, = India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 19 20 pm.; Mexican , 6 per Cent., 44 7 ; Colombian ' 314 Q. In Shares, Braz ilian Mining Sharesar e lower, and fever in them somewha t abated, they have fell to 71 a . Unitsp tn,e Mex ican era a shade highe r, and may he quoted at 84 9 dis, 3 per Cent. Consols,- - 7 1, utlyerS. FOUR O'CLOCK —CLOSING PRICES. . Consols 77 Danish Bonds 55 i 7 I T.EIR.E.E 0' CL 0 C c /C. Do. for Op 77 i Brazilian Bonds 54si Z r e t a l l .: o p . 0 1 ,. 8 1 2 8 5 25 1 , 4 4 8 i Buenos Ayres Do. 49 Peruvian Do. 25 Chilian Do. Russian Do. BOf Columbian, 1824, s2i Spanish Do. 71 8 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.--(Tuts DAY.) LONDON ZNCYcLOYIDIA. Mr. Solicitor General stated, that he had to move for an injunction to restrain the sale of a book called the Lon don Encyclopedia, hut, that he understood Mr. Home, on the other side, meant to ask for time to answer the affidavit that had been filed. He (Mr. Solicitor General) would not object to a reasonable time, and the parties all living in Paternoster-row, and i n t h e v i c i n i t y o f where his Lord ship - was sitting, a very short space of time would be re quired, particularly as the case lay in a very limited com pass. Mr. Horne did not intend to ask for any unreasonable time, but his ground of complaint was, that the motion fell within a very limited period. As he understood the case, the motion might have been made in March last, and yet the bill was not filed until the 22d inst. ; notice of it not being given till the 24th, and on the 26th they purposed making the motion. His Lordship asked what time was required? Mr. Horne said, till next Friday week. But the So licitor-General meant to require that, in the mean time, the sale of the hook should be restrained, which was, in effect, asking for the benefit of the injunction from this moments His Lordship thought the question was, how long they had had notice of the selling of the hook before the filing of the bill ? Mr. Horne said, since March last. Mr. Solicitor General observed, that his clients had been in hopes that this piracy would not have gone on, as notice had been given several times of objections to the book.. His Lordship was of opinion, that the best way to put it would be, for the sale to go on, the defendants under taking to keep an account. Mr. Home consented to this, but he did not think the plaintiffs could object to th e s ale going on, unless from a consciousness that their book was not so good as the de fendants'. The Solicitor-General said that this was an argument which might apply In every case of piracy. However he abstained from going into the case at present. PIRSONAL APPLICATION. The party whom we stated applied to the Court yesterday, to restrain the sale of furniture, again addressed his Lordship to-day. He stated that he had given notice to the assignees under his bankruptcy, and also the auctioneer, who was to sell the property at twelve o'clock to-day at Hackney ; that he should now men tion the subject, with a view to restrain the sale. His LORDSHIP endeavoured to prevent his going on, on the ground that he had no affidavit of service, nor any affidavit on which the Court could act. The old gentleman, however, persisted in speaking for some time. He stated himself to be of the name (as we under stood him) of Thomas Daunford, a Common Councilman and member of the City Corporation ' - that he had, from the pressure of the times, become a hankrupt ; that various persons of respectability haul advanced him large stuns of 501., 20 guineas, and so on, to enable him to subsist, and take all necessary steps for his protection ; that his brother, as his Lordship knew, had been a most eminent barrister ; that his father had been a most respectable man, and that he himself had been known to the Chancellor for the last 30 .I.ears to possess an irreproach a bl e ch arac t er . H e h a d been carried away by the Chancellor's eloquent argument, when Attorney-General, in defending the House of Commons *Oust a libel, and yet, on that occasion, having been on the Jury, he starved himself for six hours, rath er th an com ply in returning a verdict. Mr. MowrAcu was in this case, and be really should have advised, if the assignees could have got hold of the property the gentleman had stated he had received from motives of charity, to have taken possession of every shilling of it. His LORDSHIP never considered himself an eloquent speaker ; but was always content to think himself a very dull one. Mr. Daunford had done very right in properly discharging his duty AS a Juryman ; and the Court would have been glad to have rendered him any assistance now, but all his Lordship could say was, that under the circumstances in which this application was brought before him, by law he was not au thorised to make any order ; but this assurance he should give to the applicant ; that if the assignees improperly sold this pro perty, he should not fail to call them to account for it hereafter. Mr. DAUNFORD was quite satisfied with this intimation. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.--(Tats Mr.) THZ MAIQUIS OP .1117NTLIT 0211101 S AItZWARCHT. Mr. Suonzx applied to the Court on behalf of the plah;tiffs, trustees to the Ormond estates, to compel the defendant to pay into Court the remainder of the purchase-money, and the value of the trees on the estates which he had purchased. Mr. Hama, for the defendant, said that the entire of the pur chase-money should be paid as soon as a good conveyance would be made. This his client had a right to ask for. Mr. Lrnen—Your client is in poesission, and in receipt of the profits. Mr. Honwe-e.But he has paid to you the entire amount of the rents which he has received, with the exception of 601. Ilia client, he said, in consequence of a decree of the House of Lords affirming the capacity of the plaintiffs to make a good title, had taken possession of the estate in question, but he had returned all the profits thereof to the plaintiffs ; he was entitled to have an ab stract of the circumstances, and a proper conveyance made to him, until this was done the plaintiffs had no right to call on him for the purchase-money. The VICI.CIIANCIMLOR said, that if the defendant was in pos session of the estates be ought to be ready to give it up, as the Court would not allow him to keep the possession and the pur chase-money at the same time. Mr. HORN! said that his client was ready to give up the pos. session, or to pay the remainder of the purchase money when a proper conveyance should be made. The application was refused. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—(Tnts DAY.) Ludtvig Eding, of Sidney-street, Commercial-road, being brought up and examined by the Chief Commissioner, said that he became a convert from Judaism to Christianity, and that his children were clothed and educated by the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews. There being no opposition he was discharged. George IFigzell, of Kensington, an engrave:, Wall brought up on his petition. It appeared by his schedule that he had entered down his furniture and implements as worth no more than 201., the stun allowed by the A 0 of Parliament, whereas a broker had valued a portion of them at that sum, after the landlord had taken away to the amount of N. The Cnixr Coststustotaz reprobated the careless manner in which the insolvent had signed his documents, and called on him to account for it. The insolvent said that the broker 'had over-valued the goods, as there were some of the tools which cost him no more than 2d. a-piece. The CHIEF Comsfisstowza said that he was quite satisfied as to the correctness of the valuation. As there was a considerable surplusage, there could be no doubt but that the insolvent had deliberately attempted to mislead the Court ; but as some money had been paid in, he would not detain the insolvent..—He w as ge, cord ingly discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.--{Tuts Dar.) An Irish girl charged a man named Bustle with taking her by the leg " like a chicken," and threatening to throw her over the stairs of his house, when she only just dropped, in" for six shil. links- and sixpence, which was awing her by Mrs. Bustle. Sir RICHARD Riantx.—Well , Mr. Bustle, what excuse have you for ill tiring this girl when she called for her own? The prisoner denied the nom% as well as the debt ; but said he had kept her six months from charity. litre the evidently better half of Mr. R. st e pp e d f orwar d. 4t If You Will l oo k at t hi s book, your Worship, sa id s h e , h an di ng a piece of paper about three inches square, 4 , y ou will see a ll a b out it." Six Ricuazn, however, expressed his inability, and told the prisoner he must find bail......Prisoner—Very Sir R. Banexs.—...oh, it is, is it? Perhaps you may alter your opinion. 2 ifARLBOROUGII-STREET—(Tnis DA Y. ) An elderly num nam ed N a th an Sintrnonds, Will brought to thin Office, china dmi .. Rukhiun, in Lumber -court, fish monger, with ha r i ng a Y tteinpta l to paw a bad half-crown. The prisoner stated, that the complainant had changed it, and said it was not his own. Sir throaoi Faaaawc—.l believe you will be glad to own it, if it turns out a good one. The prisoner replied, that he was bard of hearing. The half-crown really proved a good one, and Nathan chewed his Jewish extraction, by immediately poeketting it, and leaving thy office. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain the Hon. G. A. Crofton has been appointed to the Dryad, vice Hon. Captain Rodney, deceased. Mr. Samuel Mackay, Acting-Surgeon of the Esk, and Mr. Arthur Savage, Acting-Surgeon of the Medina, have been con firmed. Mr. James Low, Surgeon, R. N„ has been appointed to the Cadmus. Mr. F. Stewart, Assistant-Surgeon of the Java, vice Brown, sick. LLOYD'S.—(THis DAY.) DEAL, JULY 25.—Wind N.E.—Passed for the River the Waterloo, Wilkinson, from Jamaica; Clifton, Smith, from Ja maica; Record, —, from ditto; and the Thalia, from the westward, are turning into the Downs. Sailed the Wellwood, Fisher, for Berbice. Porrotouni, JuLY 25.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Phoenix, Anderson, for Dublin and New South Wales; and the Triton, Marshall, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, JULY 24.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Nelly, Pul lenger, Alliance, Elliot, and Der Fredes, Natzen, from Memel. Sailed the Princess of Wales, Ayma, for Quebec. FALMOUTH, JULY 24.—Wind the Laura, Quick, from Bristol. Sailed the Sandwich packet, for Lisbon, with dispatches ; and the Cygnet packet, for the Leeward Islands. Dovicx, JULY 25.—Off the Port the Congress, —, from New Orleans; Eleanor, —, from Virginia; and Charles and Henry, from Charleston. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. A new opera, entitled the " Death Fetch," from the pen of Mr. Banim, author of " Tale: of the O'Hara Family," made its appearance at this theatre last night. The plot was something to the following effect :—.E6ert, (Mr. Archer) a visionary young student of Gottingen, forms an attachment to a young lady, named Matilda Rothe (Miss Kelly), in the course of which he contrives to vaccinate her, to borrow a phrase from the faculty, with his own superstitious fancies. It seems that they are both staunch believers in the " Death Fetch," an old Irish legend, which has been appropriately transported by order of the pious author of " Broad Grins " and" Poetical ' Vagaries" (the two most licentious books in the English language), from Ireland to Germany. This superstition, as might be supposed, lays strong hold of their minds— reason, feeling, change of scene and circumstances, all are alike unable to eradicate it. In fact, they finally fall vic tims to its terrors. Such is the outline of the story, which with a few judicious curtailments, will, we have no doubt, have a decided and deserved run. As the prin cipal catastrophe lies between Archer and Miss Kelly, so also does the acting; the remainder of the characters, with the solitary exception of Miss Paton, being of the decided common-place stamp. Towards the close of the first act there was one scene which appeared to make a deep impression upon the audience—we allude to that, where the Death-fetch of 'Ebert appears at mid night to Louisa Rothe; and after seating itself beside her for the space of ten minutes, fades as it were through an open window, beneath the moonlight. Mr. Archer, though somewhat too substantial, was here his own ghost ; and by the glassy melancholy fixedness of his eye, the stony rigidity of his muscles, the hushed mysterious 'silence of his footsteps—gave an exact and ap palling idea of what an excited imagination would conceive the being of another world to be. Of Miss Kelly's acting we can speak with equal praise; for it embodied all that we can possibly conceive of woman's tenderness and weak ness, together with that romantic and characteristic melan choly which but too often weighs down the talented and susceptible of either sex. The opera throughout is mourn ful, and leaves any thing but a pleasing impression on the mind. Death in any shape is a revolting idea to dwell on; but when it conies visibly before us, in the persons of the lovely and the young, the effect is heightened ten fold. Before we quit the subject, we must not omit no ticing one characteristic feature connected with this opera, (if opera be indeed a correct term); we allude to the strong impression that its more legendary points seemed to make on the feelings of the audience. This, in spite of reason, and every argument drawn from common sense and pre cedent, is the primitive weakness of human nature—the one which is born with it, and quits it only in the grave. An author, therefore, who appeals judiciously to this weakness, is always sure to command the deep attention of a large majority : and with this majority Mr.Banim, we are glad,to perceive, has been successful. All the per formers went through their parts with credit, and the Opera was given out for repetition with applause. We subjoin a few specimens of the poetry : " Awake, my light, my sleeping love Thu' morn is on the hill, Without thy smile, where'er I rove, 'Ti. midnight still around, above, Cold, cheerless, midnight still! " Wake ! wake ! and let the sun be bright, And the young flowers fair for me Let the summer breeze be soft and light, And the song of morning sung aright, And all in harmony." " Shadowy dead !—Shadowy dead ! Dwellers in a world unknown ! In awe-tamed hope and holy dread, Your viewless sway we own. Around, resound Your voices, tho' we cannot hear. Above, below, Ye come, ye go, In throngs and hosts, and dare appear To eyes unfihn'd by mortal fear." " The mother died when the child was born, And left me her babe to keep ; I rocked its cradle even and morn, Or, silent, hung o'er it to Weep. But soon my little girl grew strong, As she laughed the hours away ; Or sung me the merry lark's mountain song, Which he taught her at break of day. "One evening I left her asleep in her smiles, And walked thro' the mountains lonely ; I was far from my darling, oh many long miles, And I thought of her, and her only. For as the earliest twilight came, With spirits all spent and fled, A throbbing hand and a brow of flame, She had lain down in her bed. " My path was darkened, as by a dream, In that solitude far and drear ; I spoke to my child, but she did not seem To hearken with human ear ; She only looked with a cold, cold eye, And a wan, wan cheek of sorrow : I knew her Fetch ! she was called to die, And she died upon the morrow." " As those we love are smiling on, Our souls, acco►dant, brighten, And happy glances, one by one, In our's reflected, lighten : Of passion's awful sympathy, This is the first revealing, When rapture's self no charm can be, Save in partaken feeling. oc B u t, oh ! a holier proof appears, Than sympathet►c gladness, When those we love sit in the tears, And shadow of their sadness. Then heart calls out to heart, and gives Its gush in answering measure, 'Till love, rnatur'd in suffering, lives, That was but born in pleasure." The house was crowded throughout. oiltvleifgi lriifdidfa EXTRANWINARY GOOSEBE RRY.---11l a gentle man's garden on the Denburn, there was pull e d, th e n's Glory, which me asure d one i nc h an d a l ae he )t'o iength, Si inches i n c i rcum f erence, an d w 282 grains ; the weight of the pulp being 261 grains, and the skin only 21.—Aberdeen Chranick. PASHIONABTAt INIILLIOtNeg. WINDSOR, JULY 25.—Yesterday afternoon his MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge at two o'clock in his pony phaeton, accompanied by the Lord Steward, and drove by Frogmore and through the Little Park, and inspected the improvements at the Castle; he afterwards visited the state apartments, and examined very minutely the model of the frigate lately placed in the Guard Chamber, which we noticed a few days since. His MAJESTY passed two hours at the Castle, and then left for an aquatic excursion at Virginia Water. This day his MAJESTY visits Virginia Water, where he will dine and pass the evening with his suite. To-morrow his MAJESTY is again expected at the Castle. Yesterday forenoon Mrs. Coutta arrived at the White Hart Inn, where she dined with Lady Ash waden, and afterwards left for London. The Princess Sophia Matilda left her residence in Curzon-street, yesterday, for Blackheath. The Duke of York took his usual ride on horse back yesterday morning. His Royal Highness also took an airing on Monday afternoon, in his carriage. The Princess Augusta visited the Royal Duke yes terday. Dr. Macmichael has been appointed one of his Royal Highness's physicians, and frequently at tends the Royal Duke. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Secretary Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer, Lord Bexley, Mr. 'Wynn, Viscount Mel ville, and others of the Cabinet Ministers, dined with the Earl of Liverpool, at his seat at Coombe Wood, Surrey. Yesterday, Lord Charles Somerset transacted busi ness at the Secretary of State's Office for the Colonial Department. DOVER, JULY 25.—The steam packet Britannia sailed yesterday for Calais, with J. G. Lambton, Esq. his Lady, and family. He has a very large re tinue, travelling in five carriages, and it is understood will be absent two years from England. His yacht, the Jack-o-Lanthorn ' is about leaving the Thames to join Mr. Lambton at Naples. The Dutch corvette ,Komeet, Captain Dubekar, anchored in these Roads this morning, having sailed from Batavia for the Texel on the 3d April. A correspondent says, that the King would gra tify the people if he would allow Carlton Palace to be shown to them free of expellee, before that Palace, and its fine old trees and rookery behind it, are de molished. The death of Lady Lighton was caused by eating peas, which produced an inflammation so violent as 4op baffle all human remedy. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHELMSFORD RACES.--Tuasnay, JULY U. The King's Plate of 100 gs. Mr. R. Wilson's b. f. Maldonia - Mr. Brown's Maid of Kent Col. Wilson's Black Daphne Won easy. The Ladies' Plats of 501. Mr. Rush'. br. c. by Pioneer I I Mr. Brown's c. Saxon 6 1 2 Mr. Powlett's Mephistophiles t t dr Duke of Grafton's b. c. by Woful 3 dr Mr. Wilson's Pinwire 5 dr Mr. Messer's Conviction 4 dr The first heat was won cleverly, the second by a neck, and the third by a length. I 1 2 dr II 2 KELSO RACES. Sweepstake* of 10 sous. each.—Mr. Baillie'a My Desris 0, walked over. Match, 200 sari. —Lord Kennedy's Soutar o' Selkirk beat Mr. Farquharson'e b. e. Blase. The Two-yr-old Stakes of SO nova. each was won by Sir 'W. Maxwell'. Glamour, beating Mr. Baird's br. c. by Viscount, and Mr. Farquharson'. Blaze. A Plate of 50/. was won by Lord Ketburne's Gift, boating Air. Farquharson's b. a. by Canon. FIGHT BETWEEN JEIII BURN AND 11I'GEE, FOR FIFTY SOVEREIGNS ASIDE. _ In the present "pecuniary crisis" of public and pugilistic con cerns, the lovers of the P. It. are all alive when there is any pro bability of a good day's sport , ; and although Langan's "occupation's gone," and Spring snugly cribbed among the cider barrels of his native country—Although Cannon's good report is heard no more ; end our facetious friend Joshua Hudson finds it more profitable to draw porter than claret, yet we have a host of real good fighters who could keep the game alive, if the patrons of the ring would only extend their feelers, and the profile of our sovereign would countenance such men as Ward, Sampson, Crawley, O'Neal and others. However the.. assemblage collected yesterday, to witness the set-to between Burn and IITGee was uncommonly cheering, there being present all the members of tl.e P. C. and all the hardware of I3rummidgham. Burn was the favourite generally; for he is, as Uncle Ben says, " Not merely a chip of the old block, but a bit of the block itself." M'Gee is nothing but a good one, and the Liverpool blades ventured large bets in his favour, and nothing but legitimate mill ing was expected. Oliver is the friend of Burn, and Langan sup ported his brave tiountrytnan. The stakes were 501. aside, and the scene of combat on Lielifield Race course, being about midway be tween London and Liverpool. The men arrived in the neighbourhood on Sunday night, and early yesterday morning advanced towards the field, equally confident in their powers, and in high condition and spirits. A little before one the men entered the ring, and gave the customary signal. The necessary arrangements being completed, the men came to the scratch in a manner which convinced the spectator* that no child's play was intended. Round 1. The fight commenced with spirit; 14I'Ciee seemed to be desirous of making sure of the first blow; but Burn was awake, and with uncommon dexterity parried the blow, and planted a nice one on the es fivatis of his nun; Pet retuned-- one, two ;- stop -a close, and in the draggle Pat was second best. —(Bravo ! 6 to 4 on Jam). 3. liPGee, not hurt, rushed at his man, and had nearly thrown him—Jem recovered himself, and seemed determined for slaughter. Pat was not afraid, and both peppered beautifully ; Jern, to guard against the rush of his opponent, "sited for him, and received hi m with a punisher on the victualling office, which had great effect. 4 and 5. Jem liked his customer, and Uncle Ben thought it secure ; Pat seemed desirous to bore his man to the ropes, but was floored. 6to 10 was all in Burn's favour; Pat lost his wind and temper, and fought against himself. 11 and 12. Pates only aim seemed to be to get his man to the ropes ; he fought well, and the coolness and temper of Jem was admirable, although his head was most dreadfully punished. 13 to 19. Uncle Ben and Oliver complained of hating nothing to do, while their brothers on the other aide were toiling to no purpose. 2 - 0. Nothing could save M'Gee—he vainly endeavoured to hors at his man, but was almost instantly floored. 21 to 28.--Jem, anxious to finish, gave a tremendous blow, which told on the pumpkin of Pat, and made hint reel to the groand—both the men were severely punished, and Pat 'bona N I was good *tuff. u 29. " Take him awa y," wa s the universal cry ; be, howeret P made a last effort, which was quite ineffectual : Jim gay. 00 aftl mive blow, an d p oor P a t was deaf time. . 'god Le It was certain APGee had over-rated his own, or .. gut --,r his no chance man's,ab with "my , h , e m may t eo ve n y. qu p er a good`mo rsenus , has The battle lasted 26 minutes. ____ CORN-EXCHANGE.- - -f" ru t 't) , : t price, may be quo d d The arrivals since last marlrefAity ste'struill of every descrip. (;rain.tiouetfeii at mndv Thoereit rato,tolittla doing' t"lirt h IA but scarcely any sales are if fteted.. A ssif whmt . to, matt, Oats. Beans.'Peast. Flour gri. Qrs. p n r , ,,,. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks: English ....... ~ 4 160 --"" .-." l s Seo /, i ith .......• --.• --,-. --..-. ......... ........ F"Viiin ........so MOO ........ - 3,340 ...... .... .......